The Journey Continues: Drop Prayers
"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." - 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, ESV OK. Can I get a show of hands of how many of us pull out our cell phones multiple times a day to check social media? Yeah, it's what I suspected. And I'm just as guilty as the next person. I'm doing it while working, while watching TV, or worse, in the middle of my daily prayers and devotions. Checking our phones for any reason can be, and is, a distraction. And I want to change that in my life. I pray daily, usually for several minutes in the early morning before I start my day. But the prayer practice I want to develop is what I call "Drop Prayers": praying for someone or some situation as that person or situation comes to my mind. It's more akin to what Paul wrote to the church in Thessalonica: pray without ceasing. And it's something I don't do, well, at all. And that is the change ...
